The Atlanta Police Department released bodycam video on Wednesday that showed two officers with their guns out just before they detained “Bl
Ryan Coogler, director of "Black Panther" and its upcoming sequel, went to a Bank of America branch in Atlanta, Georgia, to withdraw $12,000 of his own money from his own bank account, so he could pay a household employee who preferred to be paid in cash.
See if you can guess where this story is going.
(HINT: Coogler is black.)
Coogler had a California Driver's License, and he wrote a note on his withdrawal slip saying, "I'd like to be discreet" (because he didn't want to announce to the entire bank that he was about to have $12,000 in cash in his possession). From this--and certainly not from his skin color!--the teller concluded that Coogler must be trying to rob the bank. She told her boss, and they called the police.
Four officers arrived. First they first arrested two of Coogler's colleagues, who were waiting for him in a car outside the bank. Then they entered the bank, spotted Coogler, and drew their guns. They arrested him, handcuffed him, and took him to their squad car. When a shaken Coogler suggested the officers might look him up on the Internet, one of them mocked him: "Apparently he's a big shot or something like that."
"I ain't had guns on me in a while, bro. It's a major problem, man… I just had guns drawn for taking money out my own account."
On the bright side, the police didn't actually shoot Coogler, and they did eventually realize the scary black man wasn't a bank robber.
"This situation should never have happened. However, Bank of America worked with me and addressed it to my satisfaction and we have moved on."
Just another African-American arrested for the heinous crime of Banking While Black.
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Excerpt From the Story: For many black Americans, going to the bank can be a fraught experience. Something as simple as trying to cash a check or open a bank account can lead to suspicious employees summoning the police, causing anxiety and fear — and sometimes even physical danger — for the accused customers.......#bankingwhileblack . . I photographed Clarice Middleton for The New York Times for a piece that discussed her difficulties banking as a Black American and her run in with Wells Fargo. I recommend reading about this troubling matter. Story Link: https://nyti.ms/2NfMSpD #commercialphotographer #commercialphotography #editorialportrait #editorialphotography #editorialphotographer #photooftheday #photographer #blackphotographers #africanamerican #wonderfulmachine #teamcanon #canon5dsr #portrait_vision #environmentalportrait #banking #whileblack #endracism #atlanta #portraits #portrait #photojournalist (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBoX7Y7jEGV/?igshid=ji6148dxr6fm
A Cleveland man says he was racially profiled at a local branch when they called the cops on him for trying to cash a check.
Paul McCowns had just started a new job, and tried to cash his first paycheck. It was for $1,082.24.
The bank personnel asked for two forms of ID. McCowns provided them.
They then asked for a fingerprint. McCowns complied.
Even that wasn’t good enough. They tried to call McCowns’s new employer. When they couldn’t reach him, they “handed McCowns the check back, refusing to cash it.”
So McCowns left... at which point police showed up, ordered him out of his truck, handcuffed him, and put him in the back of the squad car. Because the tellers had also called 9-1-1:
“He’s trying to cash a check and the check is fraudulent. It does not match our records.”
McCowns was released only after the police were able to contact his employer, who of course confirmed that the check was legitimate: “Yes he works for me. He just started and yes, my payroll company does pay him that much.”
Add “Banking While Black” to the list of heinous crimes for which fine, upstanding citizens can have African-Americans arrested.
“It is obvious that since Paul gave them two forms of identification and offered his fingerprints, that the bank wasn’t questioning his identity. ... They also couldn’t have been questioning the legitimacy of the check because they were obviously able to pull up the account on the computer screen and had the employer’s number. Therefore, if they could confirm McCowns’ identity and the check, then they could only have been questioning the amount of the check.”
A black man was wrongfully arrested solely because he tried to cash a check for just over a thousand dollars. And naturally there had to be something suspicious about that.
Postscript: The bank has apologized:
“We sincerely apologize to Mr. McCowns for this extremely unfortunate event. We accept responsibility for contacting the police as well as our own interactions with Mr. McCowns.”
Well, that’s that, then. Just an unfortunate isolated incident, nothing whatever to do with racism. Let’s all move on. Nothing more to see here!
#BankingWhileBlack is the latest way to get the cops called on you, a black man in Cleveland learned this month. Paul McCowns is accusing employees of a local bank of racial profiling after he found himself detained in the back of a police car. In an...
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A black architect, newly employed by her company, found herself the victim of discrimination and humiliation after a bank put her through extra security measure
Find out why this woman felt humiliated and discriminated against just for depositing a check.
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